The Search Committee Chair has the overall responsibility for managing a proactive, timely, inclusive and fair search process.  The chair acts as a liasion to the hiring department, deparatment chair, and dean.  The Chair assumes the responsibilities of a member as well as the following:

• Promotes a collegial working relationship among the committee members,

• Actively involves committee members to help recruit a broad base   of candidates,

• Establishes the search process and ground rules,

• Calls and chairs meetings,

• Ensures proper records and meeting minutes are kept,

• Leads the committee in all phases of the work including establishing evaluation criteria, advertisement, recruitment strategy and a proactive search,

• Ensures consistency and fairness during the process, and

• Manages communication with the dean, department chair and department faculty members who are not on the search committee.